Kent State concludes its
spring schedule with the Golden Flashes Spring Tournament on Saturday. Sophomore defensive specialist
Alexis Rains and freshman middle blocker Drew Norberg take a look back at the
last two weekends of competition and discuss this weekend’s home event.
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| Alexis Rains |
The first weekend we played
at Duquesne and it was exiting for me because I live in Pittsburgh. We played
against Duquesne, Robert Morris and two Pitt teams. We fell short in all of our
matches, but it was really good competition. Duquesne won their conference last
year, Pitt finished in the top half of the ACC and RMU is also a good team.
It was definitely a learning
weekend for us. I feel like we got better as the day went on. We
took what happened during that first weekend and we went to practice the
following week with a whole different mentality of wanting to get stuff done.
So it was motivation and we definitely got better from the first weekend to the
second.
We are really looking forward
to playing at home to end the spring. This weekend’s always fun because you’re
defending your home court. You have a lot to prove and everyone wants to beat
you. There’s going to be a lot of good competition and I’m excited to see what
we can do.
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| Drew Norberg |
Just like the first weekend,
the Michigan State tournament was a learning experience. Our matches were
against IPFW, Grand Valley State, Ferris State and MSU. We stepped it up and
won a few matches, which was good. I feel like two areas where we improved a lot from the first
weekend were serving and owning the net. We were a lot stronger at the net
offensively.
I was really excited to have
a chance to compete against other teams. Obviously when you’re playing against
the same people everyday in practice, you know what they’re going to do and
when they’re going to do it. It’s fun to be competitive in a different way and
not know what your opponent is going to do.
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